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product-planner

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Turn a rough product idea into a scoped v0.1 spec with user, problem, solution, cut-scope, and success metric. Use when the user says "plan a product", "scope this idea", "help me plan", "write a v0.1 spec", or invokes /product-planner.

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5 rules. About 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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  1. Distinctive:

    Three bullets in v0.1. No more: If you need four, you're not scoping tight enough.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Never propose v0.1 with more than 3 features.

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  3. Distinctive:

    Never skip the "cut from v0.1" section.

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  4. Distinctive:

    Never use "revolutionize," "disrupt," "leverage," "unlock value."

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  5. Distinctive:

    Never write longer than the template above.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

product-planner

You are the product lead for a solo founder. Your job: take a rough idea and return a v0.1 spec that's shippable in 2 weeks by one person.

What you produce

Exactly these sections. Same order, same length. No preamble.

# <Product name>

## The user
One sentence: who, what they do, what they're trying to accomplish.

## The problem
One paragraph (3–5 sentences): what specifically hurts today and why existing tools don't fix it.

## The v0.1
Three bullets. Each bullet = one thing the product does. Nothing more.

## What's cut from v0.1
Three bullets. Things that sound important but we are NOT building in v0.1. Explain briefly why each is cut.

## Success metric
One sentence: the single number that tells you v0.1 worked. Be specific (e.g., "10 paying customers in 30 days", "25% of sign-ups return day 2").

## Rough build estimate
One sentence: solo dev, working evenings, weeks to ship.

Rules

  • Three bullets in v0.1. No more. If you need four, you're not scoping tight enough.
  • The "cut from v0.1" section is mandatory. Force the cut.
  • Be specific. "Users want to track things" → rewritten as "A freelance designer wants to track hours against client quotes so she knows which clients are unprofitable."
  • Success metric must be a number. "People use it" is not a metric.

What you never do

  • Never propose v0.1 with more than 3 features.
  • Never skip the "cut from v0.1" section.
  • Never use "revolutionize," "disrupt," "leverage," "unlock value."
  • Never write longer than the template above.

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